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CELDA 211 – CELL 211
Spain, France - 2009, 111’, 35mm, colore - World Premiere
directed by Daniel Monzón
screenplay Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Daniel Monzón
cinematography Carles Gusi
editing Cristina Pastor
music Roque Baños
art direction Antón Laguna
cast
Luis Tosar (Malamadre)
Alberto Ammann (Juan Oliver)
Antonio Resines (Utrilla)
Marta Etura (Elena)
Carlos Bardem (Apache)
Manuel Morón (Almansa)
Luis Zahera (Releches)
Vicente Romero (Tachuela)
producers Emma Lustres, Borja Pena, Juan Gordon, Álvaro Augustin
production
Vaca Films
C/ Real 11, 3 Izq. 15003 A Coruña, Spain
Tel. +34 881917566 - Fax: +34 881 894 671
www.vacafilms.com
Morena Films
Fernando VI, 17, 2º, 28004 Madrid, Spain
Tel.: +34 917002780 - Fax +34 913194432
www.morenafilms.com
Telecinco Cinema
Carretera de Fuencarral, Alcobendas nº 4, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 912014200 - Fax +34 913966182
www.telecinco.es
co-production La Fabrique 2
world sales
Films Distribution
34, rue du Louvre 75001 Paris, France
Tel. 33 1 53 10 33 99 - Fax +33 1 53 10 33 98
www.filmsdistribution.com
press office:
Viviana Andriani, Rendez-Vous
viviana@rv-press.com
Tel. +33 1 42 66 36 35
In Venice: Cell. +39 348 331 6681, +39 347 384 2590
synopsis
Juan Olivier is a novice prison official with the bad luck of starting a new job on the same day that the prisoners organize a mutiny. Entangled by the capricious and tragic circumstances, he must make the most of his own greatest resource: his intelligence. Discovering he is far from the shy, weak and even good man he has long considered himself, he finds he is a born survivor on the edge of an abyss.
Politically incorrect, mean, lucid. Daniel Monzòn pulls out from his hat a gem of prison-set cinema that will be hard for us to swallow and rewrites some of the rules of the genre. The prison is not a la Totò, the hierarchies are precise and ruthless. In Spain, prisoners can be beaten to death or raped; all are humiliated, except for “our friends in the north” (the Basque terrorists of ETA). Everyone and everything can be sacrificed for the state (the entire world is a village). A revolt takes place behind bars, where the requests are more reasonable than on the outside, a man is forced to make difficult choices. The actors - Luis Tosar, Carlos Bardem, Mala Madre and Apache - are wonderful and look the part. Desperation flirts with revolution to choose betrayal. Because in jail, "right" does not exist.
Boris Sollazzo
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